immutability mantra

Authors: Ben Vickers

Keywords: Systems, Socialism, Etherium, Markets, Failure

First 100 words: All of our technological systems are haunted by the imprint of dreams and nightmares now lost in time. The reckless drive of human civilizations to continually innovate – from deep time to the present – has led to the invention of the strange and the miraculous, be it the seamless astrotheological mathematics that constitute ancient Egypt's Mirror of Heaven; the rumblings of immortality in the early-twentieth-century Russian philosophy known as Cosmism, which became the catalyst for space exploration; or Chile's Project Cybersyn in the 1970s: an advanced cybernetic system capable of automating away government. Hybrid socio-technical systems such as these, capable of…